White Plates

Famous quotes containing the words white plates, white and/or plates:

“White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
“Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)